Question

I’m trying to build out a preg_match_all so I can use the array, but the problem is that I can’t refine my regex to work.

An example input would be:

#|First Name|#
This text shouldn't be caught
#|Second Value|#

First Name and Second Value should both be in the array.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

preg_match_all('/\#\|(.*?)\|\#\]/',$html, $out);

and

preg_match_all ("/^#\|*\|#*$/i", $html, $out);

Answer 1

The first is about right, it only contains \] near the end which breaks what you want. Using

/\#\|(.*?)\|\#/

does give me correct results, with the matches in $out[1].